Quick Definition
καθηγητής, ου, ὁ n.m. a leader, teacher, guide
Strong's Definition
from a compound of 2596 and 2233; a guide, i.e. (figuratively) a teacher
KJV Usage: master
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
καθηγητής, -ov, 6, (καθηγέομαι to go before,lead); a. prop. a guide: Numen. ap. Ath. 7, p. 313 d. b. a master, teacher: Mt. xxiii. 8 RG,10. (Dion. H. jud. de Thue. 3,4; several times in Plut. [ef. Wetst. on Mt. Le.})
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
καθηγητής kathēgētēs 2x
pr. a guide, leader; in NT a teacher, instructor, Mt. 23:10*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
* καθηγητής, -οῦ, ὁ
(< καθηγέομαι, to go before, guide),
prop., a guide.
a master, teacher (MGr. professor): Mt 23:16.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
καθηγητής. For this word, which in the NT is confined to ΜῈ 23?°, cf. P Giss I. 80" (ii/A.D.) πέμψον τῷ καθηγητῇ τῆς θυγ[ατρό]ς pov, ἵνα φιλοπονήσῃ εἰς αὐτήν, ‘send to my daughter's teacher that he may bestir himself about her,” P Oxy VI. τοῦ καθηγητοῦ ἡμῶν, “1 was grieved to learn from our teacher’s daughter.” In the fragmentary P Tebt II. 591 (ii/iii A.D.) the editors suggest that καθηγητής may denote a priestly office. MGr καθηγητής = ““ professor.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
καθηγητής (kathēgētēs) — teacher. καθηγ-ητής, οῦ, ὁ, guide, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]
2. teacher, professor, [NT+1st c.BC+], etc.:— also καθηγ-ητήρ, ῆρος, ὁ, [Refs 4th c.AD+], Doric dialect καθᾱγ-, κελεύθου [Refs]:—feminine καθηγ-ήτειρα [Refs 3rd c.BC+]